Though Kanye has kept quiet on which celebrities are real or not, the video is a clever combination of lookalikes and digital trickery.

Surprising features in the video are Ray J., with whom Kim Kardashian shares a sex tape that supposedly made her famous, and Taylor Swift with whom Kanye's feud is going on.

The image was clearly inspired by American realist Vincent Desiderio’s painting 'Sleep', of 12 anonymous people in similar slumber poses, and while the men are strategically covered in Kanye's video, the women are offered no such comfort.

Kanye West debuted the image in front of 800 people on a 100ft screen at the LA Forum, with his wife and members of her family present.